Each of our units are single authored and include a series of interrelated and diverse content. Each unit component speaks to a different topic or aspect of the time period and has been specifically chosen to reinforce the material. Each unit is comparable in focus to a chapter in a textbook but, unlike textbooks, you control which items are given to your students. All of our content is customizable and designed to live alongside your own teaching materials so you can combine content to create a unique program of study.

Topical Essay: 30-minute original lecture including slides, audio, author videos, and text. Also available as slide only for in-class use.

Problem: Primary source or data driven problem. Includes a context building background section, video from the author, and an analytical activity (optional for grading purposes) meant to engage students.

Note on Document and Response: Globalyceum will make available two new active learning features in January 2017. Document is a primary source with background and optional quiz to check for understanding. Response is a provocative question with context building background and some evidence. There is an optional brief response writing assignment or poll.

Composition: A long form essay assignment building from one of our problems. Includes background historical work, writing support, and multiple drafts and outlines. Ask about our easy grader! (Starting Spring 2017, ask about customizing our basic composition platform with your writing prompt.)

Unit 1: Prehistory to Civilizations, Before 1200 BCE by Brian Fagan, University of California, Santa Barbara

Core Essay: Prehistory to Civilizations, Before 1200 BCE

Section 1: Beginnings

Section 2: Migration, Farming, and Settling

Section 3:Early Civilizations

Topical Essay: Pyramids, The Mountains of Re

Author Videos

Homo Erectus

How Farming and Herding Changed Human Society

Urak

Pyramid Architecture and Technology

Pyramid Texts and What They Tell Us

The Worker Towns of the Pyramids

Unit 2: The Early Far East, 1200 BCE-200 CE (March/April)

Unit 3: The Classical West, 1200 BCE-200 CE by Jonathan Roth, San Jose State University

Core Essay:The Classical West, 1200 BCE-200 CE

Section 1: The People

Section 2: The City

Section 3: Economy and Trade

Topical Essay: Spear, Sword, and Steed

Author Videos

Languages

Architecture

Trade Networks

Spear and its Uses in War

Sword and its Uses in War

Steed and its Uses in War

Unit 4: The Late Antique East, 200-1000 CE by Nicholas Tackett, University of California, Berkeley

Core Essay: The Late Antique East, 200-1000 CE

Section 1: The State in the East

Section 2: Trade and Commerce

Section 3: Religion

Topical Essay: The Destruction of the Aristocracy in China

Author Videos

Kitan and Other Sinicized Empires

Southeast Asian and Malaysia Trade

Buddhism

Emergence of the Chinese Bureaucracy

Chang’an

China After the Aristocracy

Unit 5: The Late Antique West, 200 CE–1000 CE by Conor Whately, University of Winnepeg